Archive for October, 2003

Only about 40% of the people voted. No final results yet. I voted the first thing in the morning. I don’t have big problems telling who i vote for in local elections — for the mayor i voted for the Greens’ Avi Binamo and for the council — Shinui. I considered the Greens, but they didn’t have a website and didn’t even answer my email, so there — they lost my vote. I don’t know almost anything about the candidates in either list. I really hope Shinui pass the barrier, they should have ran together with the Greens.

As i write this, i realize why 60% of the Israelis find the elections so boring. It’s still a shame, though.

Caesar hotel is OK, not 5* and without the wonderful omelettes like in Orchid, but who cares about the hotels, when there is the sea, the desert, and the restaurants.

And the tax-less shopping — i bought myself a Hohner chromonica and i’m gonna learn it (420NIS), Ray-Ban sunglasses (450NIS, usually it’s 900NIS, and strangely i don’t hate myself for buying sunglasses…) and also Rockfour’s “For Fans Only” and Led Zeppelin IV (it’s about time).

Made a quad runner (“tractoron”) trip in the desert. Expensive (150NIS) but fun. Now i want a motorbike.

Restaurants:

Eddie’s Hideaway — hidden in an actual Eilati neighbourhood, it is a real hideaway, worth seeking out! The food is mostly French, big selection of big steaks. When there, don’t miss the appetizers. Great service.

Weekend — two films with Sam Rockwell, mostly memorable as the obnoxious Wild Bill in Green Mile. Both good.

First — Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Howard Stern’s Private Parts meets Beautiful Mind. I didn’t know what it is about, which is good, that’s how i love my movies — surprising.

The second was Matchstick Men whichs was also a good surprise. A little more than an average Hollywood sympathetic con-artist movie. The welcome bonuses include the very charming Alison Lohman, and some great acting by Nicolas Cage, who takes a few hints from Monk. Very much a Hollywood movie though, but good fun.

Little improvements — changed encoding to Unicode, and small template changes. When i checked if they are look correctly at the actual page, there were to ads at the top — Conversion to Judaism and What is Scientology?